During food processing, interactions of antioxidants — either as antioxidant preparations or natural constituents — with proteins and other food constituents take place, and the activity of some antioxidants may change. Jan Pokorny and Stefan ...

Ingredient of the month: AroniaWhat is it?
Also known as chokeberry, aronia is a deciduous shrub with dark-coloured berries.
Where does it come from?
Eastern Europe and North America
When was it discovered?
Aronia was well known ...

In what some consider to be fallout from a US District Court?s partial overturning of the Food and Drug Administration?s ephedra ban, a US Representative from California has proposed an amendment to the Dietary Supplement Health Education Act...

The foods and supplements industries have significant roles to play as nations the world over seek solutions to the obesity epidemic. Todd Runestad and Dr Susan Lawlor investigate promising areas of research ...

Hot on the heels of establishing a new Health & Well-Being business unit to capitalize on its ongoing research into the health benefits of cocoa, Mars has gone public with findings that could result in its chocolate extracts being used in a va...

Four new cosmetics ingredients Italian company Indena has created four new cosmetics ingredients: Esculo-side, Visnadine, Ferutinin and Ginkgo Biloba Terpenes Phytosome. According to the company, Esculo-side, extracted from horse chestnut...

An extended study has highlighted the important role nutrition plays in affecting the behaviour and learning ability of children. Although the Oxford University study focused on 120 pupils diagnosed with dyspraxia (a developmental coordination...